Jaoli State

{{pp|small=yes}} {{Short description|Former Indian principality}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox former subdivision | conventional_long_name = Jaoli State | common_name = Jaoli | nation = British India | status_text = Jagir | era = | year_start = 1508 | date_start = | event_start = Established by Parsoji Moré | year_end = 1658 | date_end = | event_end = Annexation by Shivaji | event1 = | date_event1 = | p1 = Bijapur Sultanate | s1 = Maratha Empire | flag_p1 = | flag_s1 = | image_flag = | image_coat = | image_map = | image_map_caption = | stat_area1 = | stat_year1 = | stat_pop1 = | footnotes = }} '''Jaoli''' (or '''Jawali''') principality was a Jagir of Maratha Morè/Maurya (clan) which is located in the western part of the present day Maharashtra state.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3tDAAAAYAAJ&q=More+Mauryan+Marathas+-wikipedia|title=A Comprehensive History of India: The Mauryas & Satavahanas|date=1957|publisher=Orient Longmans|pages=24|language=en|quote=The rulers of the Maurya race are known to history up to the eleventh century A.D., but nowadays they are merged among the Marathas with the clan or surname More.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0QjwENC2V_IC&dq=More+Mauryan+Marathas+-wikipedia&pg=PA74|title=Shivaji, the Great Maratha|last=Sardesai|first=H. S.|date=2002|publisher=Cosmo Publications|isbn=978-81-7755-285-0|pages=74|language=en|quote=The popular tradition that Chandra Rao Moré despised Shivaji as an upstart. It is known from inscriptions that a family named Moria ruled over Konkan at the end of the 5th century A.D. (Bombay Gazetter, Vol. i, pt. 2, 282-284, 541.). The Mores were particularly influential in the Javali region, which is located in the Satara district of Maharashtra.}}</ref>

==History== {{Main|Shivaji's Campaign of Javali}} The state was centred on the valley surrounding Jaoli.<ref>Battacharya, Sachchidananda. ''A Dictionary of Indian History'' (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1977) p. 516-517.</ref> Parsoji Moré a high ranking Maratha noble under Yusuf Adil Shah was sent in konkan to finish of the remnants of Shirke chiefs{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} in konkan, by doing so he established the Jaoli state as a vassal of Adilshahi Sultanate and received the title Chandra Rao which his descendants continued to bear. Parsoji was the son of Bajirao Moré who was a noble under the Vijayanagara Empire{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} and a descent of More of Konkan.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} In the 1650s, it was ruled by Yashwantrao Moré who called himself the king of Konkan. He claimed to rule by the divine sanction of the god Mahabaleshwar (an aspect of Shiva), and had been formally recognized as the local ''Raje'' (king) by the Adil Shah.<ref name="JWL_2003">{{cite book |author=James W. Laine |title=Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ShDPwAACAAJ |year=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-566771-4 |page=21 }}</ref>

Around 1656, Shivaji - Son of Shahaji (another commander of Adil Shah) forcibly captured Jaoli in the Battle of Javali. Shivaji, who had similarly captured other territories in the area, justified his action to the Adil Shah, arguing that he governed these territories better than the deposed rulers did. However, the Adil Shah doubted Shivaji's loyalty, and sent his general Afzal Khan against Shivaji. Shivaji defeated Afzal Khan, and went on to establish an independent kingdom that evolved into the Maratha Empire.<ref name="JWL_2003"/>

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